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International Environmental Regimes

• Prof. Liliana B. Andonova

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Today

• Course overview
• Syllabus and requirements
• Student introductions

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Global Environmental Problems

• Air pollution (acid rain, climate, ozone layer)
• Biodiversity
• Deforestation
• Globalization
• Poverty Populations
• Fisheries
• International Waters

• Cross boundaries
• No global government
• Cooperate to achieve global governance

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International Regimes

• implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules,
  and decision making procedures around which
  actors expectations converge in a given area of
  international relations.
• Stephen Krasner (1983) International Regimes, p.2.

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International Regime Components

• International agreements/law
• International organizations/bureaucracies
• International institutions
• Soft norms, rules, principles
• Networks

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Actors

• States
• Advocacy organizations
• Business
• Scientific communities
• Local communities
• International bureaucracies

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ES meets IR

• Apply IR concepts and theories to environmental
  cooperation
• Focus on non-traditional actors in IR
• Role of information
• Role of networks
• Changing role of the state?

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Syllabus

• http//www.colby.edu/landonov/ES334/
• Concepts and methods
• Actors and environmental regimes
• Globalization and environmental norms
• Research presentations

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Class requirements

• Read and Speak up
• Midterm and Quiz
• Research paper and website
• Website presentation